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Our Visiting and Associated Scientists

Diana Bernal is a visiting fellow in the Hopkins Lab. She is investigating the developmental mechanisms underlying variation of the reproductive mode in the Brachiaria.

Dave Boufford, senior research scientist at the HUH, has been leading exhibitions to Asia since 1977. Along with several colleagues, he is undertaking a survey of the plant and fungal diversity of the Hengduan Mountain region in southwestern China, one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. His expeditions in unexplored and underexplored regions complement collections made in the first half of the twentieth century by Joseph Rock, TT Yü, C. W. Wang, R. C. Ching, and others.

A geneticist at the USDA Forest Service and a Sargent Award recipient, Andrew Groover will perform RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) on cambium and wood forming tissues of diverse trees in the Arboretum. Potentially important regulatory genes expressed in these tissues will be identified and analyzed as a first step to understanding the evolution of woody growth.

Rosanne Healy, Sargent Award recipient and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, is focusing on ectomycorrhizal fungi that are present on roots of trees in well-spaced habitats like the Arboretum. She plans to sequence, identify and compare the fungal partners on the roots of Oak trees present at the Arboretum with those at the Harvest Forest.

Conservation of threatened plant species is of great interest to Abby Hird. As a scientist for Botanic Gardens Conservation International–United States (BGCI-US), she collaborates with the Arnold Arboretum to implement the recommendations of the North American Collections Assessment. The goal is to preserve threatened taxa and increase genetic diversity by growing threatened plants in the living collection of the Arboretum and other botanical gardens.

Iñaki Hormaza from La Mayora Experimental Station in Malaga, Spain, is interested in flower and fruit development and pollen-pistil interactions. He spends time at the Arnold Arboretum studying the Rosaceae collection.

An Assistant Professor at Boston University, Lucy Hutyra focuses on understanding the carbon cycle in an urban environment with research sites across Boston including the Arnold Arboretum.

Kristel Schoonderwoerd is a Deland Award recipient, visiting from the Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Evolutionary Biology. Interested in many facets of evolutionary botany, Kristel has previously worked on comparative evo-devo of stomates and chloroplast protein import. At the Arboretum, she is studying reproductive traits in angiosperms on a macroevolutionary scale and examining reproductive development of Franklinia alatamaha.

Pamela Templer Associate Professor at Boston University. Her work involves examining the effects of climate change and urbanization on forest ecosystems.

Harvard Forest E. C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus Barry Tomlinson has done extensive research on developmental morphology of pollen and cones in conifers. He is currently collaborating with the Arboretum to investigate the composition and role of pollination drops in conifers.

The research of Stacey Leicht Young, Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow, examines the ecological and reproductive strategies required for lianas (woody vines) to be successful in its environment. Utilizing the Arboretum’s Leventritt Shrub and Vine collection, Stacy compares and contrasts the functional traits of North American species with East Asian species growing in a common environment.